2. INTRODUCTION ebay.com was founded by Pierre M. Omidyar in 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. eBay.com was launched in India in 2000. ebay.com is India’s leading ecommerce marketplace for the sale of goods and services by a diverse community of individuals, small businesses & brands. eBay India, India’s leading online marketplace, is a 100% subsidiary of eBay, The World’s Online Marketplace. eBay sells about 55 million hot items under up to 50,000 trade categories. This Internet-based marketplace is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week, no holidays. A person can shop for desired items anywhere he or she may be. There are currently about 157 million unique users to services around the globe. It offers its software in 23 languages .
3. MISSION-: "ebay mission is to provide a global trading platform where practically anyone can trade practically anything." VISION-: * To provide a platform globally where online users practically buy or sell anything at any given price . * Deals should be done or transacted online . * To bring together million of people everyday on a local ,national and international basis through an array of websites that focus on commerce ,payments and communication.
4. In 2009, eBay India launched Global EasyBuy - The International Online Shopping Destination - which provides Indian shoppers with instant access to an unprecedented 18 million products. eBay also owns the Latin auctioneer site MercadoLibre.com, which is specifically designed and operated for Latin American users.
